Anyone else find it strange how the controls are laid out? While I'm sure there are a few games it might not be a problem with, seems to me that the majority of games wouldn't be to fun to play with a upside down or sideways display? Perhaps the screen is split 4 ways, but for this kind of money I'd rather buy or build a MAME cabinet with 4 control pads set up properly to share the entire screen.
I was alive in the 80's, I just never got into gaming until 86 when I got a NES console. Still don't understand the layout though... it would make sense with a game like pac man maybe but then the description also says it can play street fighter...
Not sure what you mean. I would assume that the screen rotates upon player change, although I am not certain that MAME supports that. Does it? Also, it is meant for two players, from what I see. Change seats depending on whether you want to play vertical or horizontal games. That's what the picture suggests, but I'm off to read the detailed info, as it looks very cool. Now, how to convince my wife that it's a priority item for the house?
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LeStat730 @ Oct 9th 2007 8:35PM
Anyone else find it strange how the controls are laid out? While I'm sure there are a few games it might not be a problem with, seems to me that the majority of games wouldn't be to fun to play with a upside down or sideways display? Perhaps the screen is split 4 ways, but for this kind of money I'd rather buy or build a MAME cabinet with 4 control pads set up properly to share the entire screen.
Craig @ Oct 9th 2007 8:48PM
clearly you were not alive in the 80s...
LeStat730 @ Oct 9th 2007 8:55PM
I was alive in the 80's, I just never got into gaming until 86 when I got a NES console. Still don't understand the layout though... it would make sense with a game like pac man maybe but then the description also says it can play street fighter...
Jean-Michel Decombe @ Oct 9th 2007 10:16PM
Not sure what you mean. I would assume that the screen rotates upon player change, although I am not certain that MAME supports that. Does it? Also, it is meant for two players, from what I see. Change seats depending on whether you want to play vertical or horizontal games. That's what the picture suggests, but I'm off to read the detailed info, as it looks very cool. Now, how to convince my wife that it's a priority item for the house?